By Jay Thoden van Velzen, Technical Advisor, Office of the CSOSAPinsider 2024 Las Vegas completed my world tour of similar events after Melbourne and Copenhagen, giving me a priceless opportunity to hear from customers in three very different regions...
Recently, three interesting reports came out that give insight into the current state of cloud security from different perspectives: The cloud infrastructure and service provider view is represented by Google Cloud’s Threat Horizons H1 2024 Report (...
After a slight dip in 2022, in 2023 the number of reported ransomware attacks rose by 50% compared to 2 years ago. The global average cost of a data breach was $4.45M in 2023, according to a recent IBM report, but individual cases can have far great...
AI generated image of a frustrated man surrounded by clouds and on-premise servers
This week I saw an interesting data point in a ComputerWeekly article (CW) from the opening keynote at the start of the UK and Ireland SAP User Group’s Connect23 annu...
AI-generated image of a highway with guardrails running through the clouds
Our Most Effective Security Controls
One of the most powerful security controls we have in place at SAP are our cloud guardrails, or preventive controls applied to our publi...
@mfallas to a large extent, this change has been ongoing for some time. I recently asked several colleagues within SAP whether they remembered when they last last needed SAP GUI for anything work related. Most of the responses were around 2009-2012. ...
Hi Joris,
It's currently in place at SAP only for internal use across the landscape. On the open source side, let's give it some time. It might, but that decision has not yet been taken. We are contributing on the detective controls side on the Chef...
Culture makes a massive difference. A big part of it is to be comfortable with having people constantly look over each other's work (whether in development teams, DevOps or Operations), not to find blame, but to correct and improve. Leaders and senio...